Calls this morning to sack our beloved Jeremy Clarkson from Chris Mole of the Labour party have started a row over comments made by Jeremy in last Sundays Top Gear broadcast. Whilst driving a lorry through a brick wall Jeremy made remarks that caused 1800 people to complain to the BBC. Earlier this year a former lorry driver, Steve Wright, was convicted of murdering five prostitutes in Ipswich, enough said.

I am sure Jeremy is sorry for the comments, but let us not now start a witch hunt on every comment that is made on the Beeb.

Next year Acorn will be stocking major work wear brands that will be available direct from their trade counter and the website. Such Major names as Caterpillar, Helly Hanson, Mascot, Panopy and Snickers will be added to the current brands such as Dickies Dennys and Kustom Kit.

The new Acorn Catalogue due out at the end of January 2009 will be supported with a new mini work wear catalogue that will highlight the new work wear range being added for 2009. Acorn will of course be able to offer personalisation on the products from their inhouse manufacturing facility at Coventry.

Acorn have printed and supplied several thousand Obama t shirts for the European Market. Acorn worked with the American owned UK based Company  to produce a full colour process design that would be sold through out Europe. Once the trials were completed the artwork and positives were then supplied to the Amercian T shirt printer chosen by WPS who are printing them for the US market.
The  full colour design was reproduced and prepared by Acorn’s own art department.

There you go ! all the extra voters must have been wearing our T shirts

The next most powerful man in the World will be known in the morning. America is gripped by this election like never before. A whole section of the population for the first time are out to vote knowing that their vote will make history. Unless the Nation get a case of the last minute wobbles then most know that history is about to be made.When we in the UK wake up in the morning a next President elect will have been crowned.The safe money is on the new boy on the block.

Tomorrow we will tell you how we at Acorn Printing helped the new man reach the Oval office

TROOP AID was founded in November 2006 by three ex servicemen, Ray Warren, Captain (retired) Al Sutton and Derek Joss as a result of a visit to Selly Oak Hospital’s Alexander Wing in Birmingham . This is the home of the Defence Medical Welfare Services who are responsible for the welfare of all Armed Forces Personnel, male and female who have been injured during the conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

What do they do ?

When Troops return to the United Kingdom from the war zones they arrive back in their uniform, for example combat kit, boots etc.  They do not have any civilian clothing and usually no money to purchase essential necessities for their immediate use.

The objective of TROOP AID is to supply the basic essentials required when  Service casualties return from serving their country overseas.

Examples of what they supply are:  A large holdall containing washing and shaving kit,  trainers and socks, underwear, tracksuits,T-shirts sweatshirts and a warm fleece.  Female requirements are also provided.

They also supply videos, dvds, books, games and confectionery which includes chocolate, crisps, biscuits etc.

Acorn have been in a supply partnership with Troop Aid from the begining and are very proud to continue to support them. They are doing a fantasic job and it has just been anounced that Prince Charles has agreed to become their Patron. This truly a great moment for the charity (Registered Charity No: 1123888) The support for them has been fantastic and now with Royal approval they will go from strength to stregth.

If you would like to support them please visit their website http://www.troopaid.info/

As Felipe Massa crossed the finish line today in the final F1 race of the year his family started to celebrate the World champion ship title just 10 seconds to soon. With Hamilton in 6th position coming into the last bend it seemed certain that Massa had not only won on home turf but also gained the title by one point.
The final race of the year turned out to be one of the best races for many years, with the weather changing so many times during the race made it a real old fashioned cat and mouse chase for the  World Championship title. Massa drove the perfect race from start to finish and barring a major error of mechanical failure was not going to be caught but we all sat on the edge of our chairs right to that last corner when Hamilton took Sebastian Vettel seconds before going over the line in 5th position giving him the Champion title.

Well done Lewis. It’s great to have a British Champion again.

One of the largest trade magazines featured Acorn’s modern manufacturing facility at Coventry in the October issue. The Article continued on from an article published a year ago which reported Acorn’s continued investment in the latest printing technolgy available. Following on from Last years purchase of  the newly launched M&R computer controlled automatic t shirt printer (the first in the UK) Acorn  again lead the field by investing in a Direct to Garment printer from Brother. The feature can be seen in full online at   http://www.images-magazine.com/pdf/imagesoct08_acorn.pdf

Acorn  are the intenet’s leading supplier of event and promotional clothing. The fact that Acorn have their own production facility right in the centre of the UK makes them ideally placed to ship throughout the UK.
Acorn  employ the latest technology in garment printing and embroidery.

To ensure the customer gets the best quality and delivery time possible. By having their own art dept Acorn are able to assist clients from the start of a project through  planning development and production of their promotional event supplying bespoke printing and embroidery from modern manufacturing systems.

Having the manufacturing and design capability in house means that Acorn do not have to rely on subcontract companies so the control is with a single source. By keeping the supply chain as sort as possible Acorn have being supplying satisfied customers for over 25 years.

Never mind go west, The place to travel to is Australia according to the results of a new cenus the figures show that Australia is suffering from the lack of men. The man drought is revealed with the statistics showing there are almost 100,000 more females than males in Australia.

The place to go to is the coastal cities as the imbalance is worse as women have moved to the cities seeking better jobs and life styles so you don’t even have to travel to the outback !

The good news is, don’t matter how many you rate you can never get the names mixed up as there all called Shelia. The bad news is the beers crap.

But on balance you can get used to the beer.

A sample of the terms are listed 
Shelia = female 
A dog = a women who is not called Shelia  
Cook = the wife   
Cobber = a friend
Before you travel you would need to learn the lingo  A handy translation, must visit site is http://www.australianexplorer.com/slang/people.htm

In 2009 the Danish work wear brand plan to expand into the UK market. They are already huge in Europe and are known in this country as a top quality work wear brand currently being sold through traditional industrial supply companies.
Mascot is planning to enlarge their market share in the UK by being available for the imprint industry, that is being available to Companies such as Acorn who specialize in supplying work wear clothing that has been personalized for corporate use. Acorn will add several major work wear brands to the website next year which will be supported by the trade counter now operating form their headquarters in Coventry.